Tarheel Covenant Blog

Historical Christianity has defined the destiny of the unrepentant wicked as eternity in Hell. Eternal conscious torment, or ECT for short. ...

"Regarding the guilty sinner, it is the perfection of God's being that requires and effects the maintenance of God's holy being...

 I have noticed a curious trend among professing evangelicals to adopt the doctrine of annihilationism . That doctrine holds that the wicked...

In our day, there is a growing movement to deny that the Bible teaches an eternal judgment in Hell. Rather, these people say, the spirit of ...

In interactions with annihilationists, I always insist that the Christian at death is immediately ushered into the presence of Jesus in Heav...

There the wicked cease from troubling,      and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together;      they hear not t...

Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses (mainly, but others, too) hold to the doctrine of annihilationism, the supposed destructi...

While their specifics are different, both Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists hold to a version of "soul sleep." ...

According to Jehovah's Witnesses, upon death a person's spirit disintegrates, to be recreated by God at the resurrection. Their offi...

I have directed my attention before to the Millerite doctrine of annihilationism , the belief that the wicked will not suffer for eternity,...

The Seventh-Day Adventists (and some other smaller groups) teach a doctrine of "soul sleep," i. e., the believe that the spirit...

As is commonly known, the Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists both deny the doctrine of a conscious, eternal punishment in He...

This question gets asked by all sorts of people: atheists, universalists (both the liberal and the supposedly-evangelical varieties), annihi...

" Why did you bring me out from the womb?      Would that I had died before any eye had seen me and were as though I had not been,  ...

This is a question that I have been asked by both Seventh-Day Adventists (because they believe in the annihilation of the wicked) and atheis...

The Seventh-Day Adventists hold to a doctrine referred to as " soul sleep ." Their belief is that the intermediate state, i. e., t...

Before I start, I want to say that nothing I am about to say should be taken to refer to the only- begotten Son of God (John 1:14). That ...

As exemplified by the late John Stott , the philosophy of annihilationism has been spreading, even among professed evangelicals. Annihilati...